Has the time come for me to lower those expectations?
Am I rating our current status to high based on whats gone before?
Or am I right to expect Liverpool football club to always be there or thereabouts when the trophies are handed out.
Nothing changes with respect to how I will ever feel for the club no matter what lies ahead but I would find it saddening to begin every year with little or no belief that this (winning the league) will be a possibility.
Great post Brian.
Liked what Semple posted as well.
Im an al fart who has supported the club since 1962 Second Division.
NO is my answer.
Shankly took this club and pulled it up by its boot laces to put it on the road to become the most successful British club in history.
He didn't lower or compromise in any way his expectations of what we could become. It was his unswerving faith that set us off on the road we passed along in the decades that followed.
We laid the principals as a club and as supporters that has been emulated by many but never bettered.
Our tribal stories our songs our sayings and our anecdotes are unique to US.
Our Boot Room and the Liverpool way was instinctively born.
What is happening Brian and you can see it in every single post is that either we swing from say "In Rafa We Trust" with blind faith or somewhere in another post someone starts sniping him.
One minute we are praising the team or a player up. The next we are knocking them down and pulling them to bits.
This isnt just honest fan debate. This is complete confusion. We are eating ourselves from within.
We dont know where we are headed because of who has their hands on the wheel.
We started Reclaim the Kop and The Spirit Of Shankly.
We can initiate organisation and movement in support of our club.
In respect of our expectations, the minute we start to believe we are nothing more forever an Also Ran Club we throw away our history.
We spit in the face of Shankly and Paisley and those that followed. We trample over their legacy.
There are the others ......for who we must never stop believing for.
We maintain our expectation.
We ensure that we never throw into the fire those stories we tell our children. It is our children who look to us to keep the faith.